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    I'm sorry to hear that, Roger.

    Indeed, this queston over rank has been happening a long time. One of the casualties we featured in the 90th Anniversary of the Unknown Warrior project (exhibition in the library now) was killed in October 1916. He'd been a sergeant in the Territorials, and volunteered for The Buffs after the first day of the Somme. He died, according to his commanding officer, with "his stripes still on him". We're told the order reverting him to Private on his transfer was dated the day after his death. His widow, however, received only a Private's pension.

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